A three-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation will help Marculescu and her team investigate and ultimately control large-scale sustainable energy harvesting in river networks. Her team is banking on the efficiency of hydrokinetic, or run-of-the-river, power extraction, which harvests a small portion of kinetic energy in the river at multiple locations.MORE

An award-winning poet, author and screenwriter, Daniels founded Carnegie Mellon's Martin Luther King, Jr. Writing Awards 15 years ago to encourage Pittsburgh-area high school and college students to explore their personal connections with race and discrimination.MORE

Professor Chris Atkeson and 10 other CMU roboticists have been working with a team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute to prepare a 330-pound Atlas humanoid to perform human-like tasks in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. So far, the team has taken the Atlas from being barely able to walk and transformed it into a machine that can drive a car, climb a ladder and use power tools. Seventeen teams are set to compete in the trials Dec. 20-21, inculding six other teams who are also using an Atlas.MORE

CMU's Tartan Rescue Team is one of 17 teams competing in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) at the Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla. The DRC is intended to spur development of advanced robots that can mitigate disasters while working in environments engineered for people. Based on performance at the trials, up to eight teams will receive DARPA funding to help prepare for the DRC Finals next December.MORE

Subrahmanian, a research professor in CMU's Institute for Complex Engineered Systems, is being honored for his cross-disciplinary study of design through the fields of computer science, social sciences, engineering design and systems design.MORE

David Garlan,a professor in the Institute for Software Research, is among 50 innovators from the world's leading universities and corporations named by the Association for Computer Machinery as 2013 Fellows. The list also includes three additional Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. alumni.MORE

Carnegie Mellon University faculty members Krzysztof Matyjaszewski and Raj Reddy and President Subra Suresh were nominated by their peers for outstanding contributions to innovation in areas such as patents and licensing, discovery and technology, significant impact on society, and support and enhancement of innovation.MORE

Ink from the cuttlefish, a close relative of the squid, provides the perfect chemistry and nanostructure to power tiny electronic devices that can be either ingested or implanted into the body for applications ranging from biosensing to drug delivery.MORE

Kovačević, a professor of biomedical engineering and electrical and computer engineering and director of the Center for Bioimage Informatics at CMU, succeeds Ed Schlesinger, who has been named dean of the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.MORE

Students in the Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design Course will unveil their prototypes from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Monday, Dec. 9. Among the projects is a rolling water transport and filtration system to ensure the use of clean water in developing nations where infrastructure is sparse.MORE

With a three-year, $1.9 million grant from the Department of Energy, CMU researchers Anthony Rowe and Mario Berges are developing sensor networks and an open-source software platform to optimize energy use in buildings, which annually consume 39 percent of total U.S. energy production.MORE

"Today, the world mourns the loss of one of our greatest leaders, Nelson Rolihlahla "Madiba" Mandela. His spirit lives on forever in every freedom-loving and committed warrior of peace and justice. Mandela not only changed the course of history for South Africa, but he left a legacy that can be appreciated by every person, from every country across the globe," said CMU's Frazer, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (2005-2009) and U.S. Ambassador to South Africa (2004-2005).MORE

Akinci is working with researchers from CMU's Robotics Institute and with engineers at Northeastern University to create autonomous aerial robots that will make inspecting infrastructure safer and more efficient.MORE

Professor Jim Antaki says the principles of improvisation inspire students to be more creative and to think on their feet. The session will take place from 5:30 - 8:20 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 5 in the Gates Center for Computer Science.MORE

The new release of Alice, which features Garfield, Odie, Jon, Nermel and other characters from the popular comic strip, is geared to help middle and high school students learn programming concepts as teachers are increasingly requesting educational materials for computer science that are appropriate for that age group.MORE

Sitti, director of the NanoRobotics Lab at CMU and a professor of mechanical engineering, is being recognized for his outstanding contributions to micro- and nano-scale robotic systems, which can be used to benefit health care and national security.MORE

In a study led by Yale University, Roeder looked for unusual clustering of a targeted list of autism genes in a map of the brain determined by BrainSpan, a digital atlas of where genes are expressed in the human brain over the lifespan. The results of the study are reported in the Nov. 21 issue of the journal "Cell."MORE

Courtney T. Wittekind of Mason, Ohio, who earned a Bachelor of Humanities and Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University in May 2013, has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, one of the oldest and most prestigious international study awards available to students in the United States.MORE

Through this five-year, $3.7 million project, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, researchers from CMU, Syracuse University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will develop methods that enable people with disabilities to take full advantage of the resources available on the Internet.MORE

Pittsburgh residents are significantly more civically healthy than other Pennsylvanians and average Americans, according to a new report conducted by Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh and produced by the National Conference on Citizenship.MORE

Alessandro Acquisti and Christina Fong say the findings suggest that, while hiring discrimination via Internet searches and social media does not seem widespread, the impact of revealing certain traits online can have a significant effect on the behavior of employers who look online for candidates' personal information.MORE